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“Novo delivered positive growth rates in the third quarter, sending a very encouraging signal to investors regarding the trade-off between lower prices and increased volume.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
He preemptively denied the allegations in a video posted to his YouTube channel, refuting the “very, very serious criminal allegations” about to come out against him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Instead, I’m standing in my own kitchen, feeling very pleased with myself.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
"Our system generates a supercurrent that varies over time like an alternating current but without voltage. It's the very evolution of the qubit's state that produces that oscillation," says Egues.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
His mind was very quick, though, and he had a tremendous sense of humor.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
Ne'er did I see verier light in earth or sky, than flashed into her face as their eyes met.
From A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales by Amélie Rives
Is there a verier child than I am now?
From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by John Donne
Yet, on my conscience, there are verier knaves desire to live, for all he be a Roman; and there be some of them too that die against their wills.
From Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
How dare we, that may gaze not on the sun, Gaze on this verier one?
From Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc From Swinburne's Poems Volume V. by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Facing the veriest day of her young life this week, Luci was clearly determined to savor every precious moment of it, public and private.
From Time Magazine Archive
She could mix a cocktail as well as the veriest flapper of today.
From Time Magazine Archive
If the Fall is a tragedy, Collier feels, as petulantly as the veriest college sophomore, then God is to blame.
From Time Magazine Archive
The veriest dauber knows about dynamic symmetry which is, in a sense, geometry in art.
From Time Magazine Archive
I felt for the moment the veriest coward.
From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Stanley J. Weyman
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